1Samuel:4:12-22
geneva@1Samuel:4:12 @ And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes (note:)In token of sorrow and mourning.(:note) rent, and with earth upon his head.
geneva@1Samuel:4:13 @ And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart (note:)Lest it should be taken by the enemy.(:note) trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told [it], all the city cried out.
geneva@1Samuel:4:14 @ And when Eli heard the noyse of the crying, he sayd, What meaneth this noyse of the tumult? and the man came in hastily, and tolde Eli.
geneva@1Samuel:4:15 @ (Nowe Eli was fourescore and eighteene yeere olde, and his eyes were dimme that hee could not see)
geneva@1Samuel:4:16 @ And the man sayd vnto Eli, I came from the armie, and I fled this day out of the hoste: and he sayd, What thing is done, my sonne?
geneva@1Samuel:4:17 @ And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, (note:)According as God had said before.(:note) are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
geneva@1Samuel:4:18 @ And when he had made mention of the Arke of God, Eli fell from his seate backward by the side of the gate, and his necke was broken, and he dyed: for he was an olde man and heauie: and he had iudged Israel fourtie yeeres.
geneva@1Samuel:4:19 @ And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, [near] to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she (note:)And positioned her body for her labour and delivery.(:note) bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
geneva@1Samuel:4:20 @ And about the time of her death, the women that stoode about her, sayd vnto her, Feare not: for thou hast borne a sonne: but she answered not, nor regarded it.
geneva@1Samuel:4:21 @ And she named the childe Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel, because the Arke of God was taken, and because of her father in lawe and her husband.
geneva@1Samuel:4:22 @ And she said, (note:)She uttered her great sorrow by repeating her words.(:note) The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
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